homophones in England. 39. Homographs A kind of homonym, two or more words which are spelled the same, but differ in origin, meaning and pronunciation/stress o Minute – tiny vs minute – 60 sec o Bear – noun vs bear – verb o Entrance, complex 40. Synonyms A language specific phenomenon where different words share the same meaning. o Because of specialized lexis, foreign influences, expressive lexis Absolute synonymy – absolute sameness of all aspects of meaning. Very rare o Anyway/anyhow, everybody/everyone, Propositional synonymy – the words don’t change the meaning of the sentence difference in style/discourse o Start/commence, o Cross varietal synonymy – courgette/zucchini, tin/can, soda/pop Near synonymy o Non-denotational differences (connotational register, style) Cognitive
is past tense of lie BUT also a non-professional OR a short lyrics or narrative poem which will be sung 39. Homophones Words that sound similar Fair and fare tail and tale right and write and wright and rite 40. Homographs Similar spelling Minute (unit of time) vs minute (tiny). Lead (metal) vs lead (to guide) 41. Synonyms A word that shares the same denotation with another word. Enourmous is immense, male is masculine. There are absolute synonymy such as everybody and everyone, anyhow and anyway. There near-synonymy like die and kick the bucket and pass away. Here we observe a matter of degree. We use principle of contrast to know 42. Opposites (antonyms) 1) in the broad sense (= opposite) 2) in the narrow sense (= contrary adjective) Four main types of opposites (antonyms) 1) contrary antonyms (gradable antonyms) long / short; good / bad; fast / slow 2) complementary antonyms (either / or) dead / alive; male / female
and what one is supposed to do in response to certain linguistic utterances, but most importantly of "languagelanguage rules," which govern what one is supposed to say as the product of inference from something else that has previously been said. Let us call this the Inferential Theory of Meaning. It is hard to see how a theory that took "Hello" or "Slab" as its para- digms could succeed in explaining the more refined of the meaning facts. Meaningfulness, synonymy, and ambiguity are not a problem; but what of entailment between complex sentences? The Inferential Theory's appeal to inferring helps, for what might seem to be the static abstract relation of "entailment" between two sentences can be reconstrued as a rule-governed practice of inferring the one from the other. "Harold is fat and Ben is stupid" entails "Ben is stupid" because, if someone asserts the former but denies the
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